Don Bosco Philippines: It's Impact on Nation Building

After his ordination to the priest hood, Don Bosco vowed to dedicate his whole life to the welfare of poor and abandoned boys. It was the period of the pre-indurstial revolution in italy and there were lots of them in those day in turin, the capital of piedmont in north italy.

Don Bosco realized that it was not enough to teach the young Religion and Good Morals. They have to be equipped with the necessary skills for like. Thus he organized evening classes for his beloved boys, teaching them the many trades he had learned in his youth. As other people came to help him, what had began with no capital at all, grew unger God’s providence into different and diversified shops and classrooms where the abandoned youth or Turin found education thaat would enable them to live in dignity. These are the origins of the salesian professional schoolswhich is from turin immediately spread to south America, spain and other countries.

The abandoned and poor boys that don bosco have gathered in the streets of Turin were soon transformed into honest citizens and good Christians. Instead of posing a problem to society, they would contribute to its well being. Even the most anti-clerical of government ministers Umberto Ratazzi was so impressed by Don Bosco’s system of education that he helped Don Bosco in the founding of his religious congreçation at a time when religious congregations were suppressed by that same government.